Millennium Park

The concert began suddenly, with a violinist standing amid the audience. Then came two male voices, clear and pure, also amid the crowd, singing notes rather than words. And then, as the music paused, a third voice, belonging to the evening's headliner, Brandi Carlile, separated itself to sing the first lyric: "Broken sticks and broken bones/ Will turn to dust just like our bones …" As Carlile's voice, all by itself, rang through the main theater at the Old Town School of Folk Music and the band slowly made its way onto the stage, it was clear — in a way that no advance notice could have prepared you for — that this was a different sort of popular...

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